
Episode 181: Hannah Arendt on the Banality of Evil (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Is There a Government of Nobody in a Bureaucracy?
Orwell: Totalitarianism is the cancerous growth of this sort of idea of status and respectability. He claims that the source of totalitarianism will be middle class, upper middle class bureaucrats who are essentially meritocrats and careerists. There's an aspect of it that thereis a machine that's just moving along, and people are doing what the activities of just making the machine run. The wanosee conference, where you have high ranking national socialists and then also in the german government, separately, get together work out the logistics of the final solution.
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